Great Books for Gardeners

Trish Hull with the Salt Lake County Library Services reveals ten great reads for gardeners.

Gardeners Book

Cutting
Edge Gardening in the Intermountain West

By
Marcia Tatroe

Call
#: 635.952 Tat

The
first complete gardening book to cover the hot, dry, desert and plains
areas of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, Idaho, Montana. Topics
include: extensive plant lists for all areas, hardscape ideas using
rock and wood, and many other things.

Grow
Organic

ByEditor: Louise Abbott

Call
#:635.048 Gro

Learn
to grow delicious vegetables and fruit, keep plants and flowers
healthy, make compost, and attract wildlife. Step-by-step sequences
show all the key gardening techniques, making them easy to follow.

High
and Dry: gardening with cold-hardy dryland plants

By
Robert Nold

Call
#:635.952 Nold

The
book’s trove of plants is brought to life through detailed
advice based upon Nold’s hard-won understanding of gardening
in Denver’s unique climatic conditions. Extensive plant
profiles offer descriptions of plants, their habits, and cultural
requirements. Moreover, entries are filled with
Nold’s personal experience, helping to govern
readers’ choices as they look to create their own beautiful
gardens.

Family
Gardens: How to create magical outdoor spaces…

By
Bunny Guinness

Call
#:712.6 Gui

Sets
out to prove it is possible to create a garden for the whole family to
enjoy - one which combines mystery, adventure and exhilaration for
children, while simultaneously appearing stylishly designed and planted
for the grown-ups - even in a small space and on a tight budget.

Lasagna
Gardening

By
Patricia Lanza

Call
#:635 Lan

This
intriguingly titled book serves up a time-saving approach to gardening
that will come as welcome news to the overworked and the
horticulturally challenged. Lanza exhorts readers to build soil up,
"instead of digging down," by simply layering organic materials onto a
prospective garden site and close-planting directly into it.

The
Complete Illustrated Handbook of Garden Pests & Diseases

By
Andrew Mikolajski

Call
#:635.92 Mik

The
greatest deterrent to every would-be gardener is coping with weeds and
dealing with plants that fail to thrive no matter how well nurtured
they have been. This is a guide to the most common garden problems, and
some rarer ones also, and how to identify and eradicate them using
organic and inorganic means.

Allergy-free
Gardening

By
Thomas Leo Ogren

Call
#:635 Ogr

Tom
Ogren investigates the role that urban planning plays in the
urgent health crisis of allergy problems. This comprehensive
plant-by-plant
reference alerts gardeners and landscapers to the source of this
epidemic and
aims to arm them with the tools to reduce their exposure to harmful
allergens.

The
Way We Garden Now

By
Katherine Whiteside

Call
#: 635 Whi

A
self-described "hands-on gardener with a healthy disregard for fancy
tools, an aversion to spending, and no time to recover from extreme
exhaustion," Whitestone urges readers to forget "perfection" when it
comes to gardening, and instead turn it into something pleasurable.

Designing
the New Kitchen Garden

By
Jennifer R Bartley

Call
#:635.048

The
classic kitchen garden, has long been a part of European culture and
consciousness. In this volume, Jennifer Bartley shows how the
traditional features of a kitchen garden can be adapted to American
needs and conditions.

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